60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Mystery, Atmospheric.
An audio restoration job becomes an investigation into the occult, as an elusive musician’s damaged cassette tapes are exhumed in northern Italy. Use a fully-operational desktop to sift through files, descending into the artist’s world in this slow-burning ghost tale of creativity and obsession.
On Tape << Rewind
On Tape << Rewind is a psychological horror story told through cassette tapes. Play recordings, search for clues, discover hidden cassettes, and manipulate audio. Unravel the mystery of a scientist’s disappearance and the obsession that consumed him — tape by tape.
Xochi's Apothecary
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
On Tape << Rewind is a psychological horror story told through cassette tapes. Play recordings, search for clues, discover hidden cassettes, and manipulate audio. Unravel the mystery of a scientist’s disappearance and the obsession that consumed him — tape by tape.
Why similar: Narrative 26.8% ★, Investigation 15%, Detective 12.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Surreal 8%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Narrative 24% ★, Investigation 19.2%, Detective 17.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Mystery 8.8%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Narrative 24% ★, Investigation 11%, Mystery 9%, Surreal 8.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Uncover the truth behind an idol's disappearance, weeks before her debut. Whispers of the Luminaries is a narrative-driven game that blends a classic detective story with the dark side of the idol entertainment industry.
Why similar: Narrative 25.4% ★, Detective 15.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological 5.9%
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Narrative 20.1% ★, FMV 17.5% ★, Detective 16.8%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 9.4%
Become a pathologist in a sinister mansion filled with unsolved mysteries. Examine bodies and make decisions that alter the course of the investigation. Your choices shape multiple story endings in this narrative-driven psychological horror — where every secret could cost your sanity.
Why similar: Narrative 23.4% ★, Detective 18.1%, Investigation 15.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
My Work Is Not Yet Done is a narrative-driven investigative horror game, combining elements of the survival/simulation genres with a dense, nonlinear plot exploring the imbrication and dissolution of human identities/meanings within uncanny wilderness.
Why similar: Narrative 30.2% ★, Investigation 15.7%, Detective 13.7%, Mystery 9.6%, Surreal 8.3%
Cradlemoor is a cinematic multi-layered narrative game, which casts you as Journalist William Marlowe as he journeys to the Dartmoor village of Cradlemoor to investigate a missing film crew. Cradlemoor features a persistent story across multiple playthroughs and hours of film, files and documents.
Why similar: FMV 27.7% ★, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 15.3%, Mystery 10%, Psychological 6.6%
Unravel the mysteries of the ocean spirit world by accompanying a recent high school graduate, Bulut, who lost all of his memories of family and friends. The Inspireist is a story-rich puzzle adventure narrative set in a recent 21st century, alternate realm Izmrr.
Why similar: Narrative 46.8% ★, Mystery 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Interactive Fiction 4.7%
A war hero returns to a shattered England, searching for his missing family while confronting nightmares that defy reality. A choice-driven, narrative thriller with 8 unique endings.
Why similar: Narrative 26.6% ★, Detective 13.4%, Surreal 10%, Mystery 8%, Investigation 7.9%
THIEF’S SHELTER is a 3D Point and Click Psychological Adventure where the world mirrors a crumbling mind. Nothing stays still, and even your own thoughts can’t be trusted.
Why similar: Narrative 31.4% ★, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 14.8%, Psychological 10.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? In this bartending mystery game, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation - but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, Detective 15%, Investigation 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%, Mystery 8.9%
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Detective 17.1%, Investigation 13.9%, Surreal 12%, Mystery 10.8%
A monster is hiding behind one of the voices on the line. Identify the liar before you reveal your location. One wrong judgment, and it comes to your door. Each playthrough changes who's lying.
Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 14%, Mystery 11.6%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories and decide what knowledge survives.
Why similar: Narrative 34.1% ★, Investigation 14.7%, Detective 13%, Mystery 12.5%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Supermarket Music is an anime rhythm visual novel about a news network, a tech company, and a TV show that broadcasts your dreams. Hit the beat. Watch the cartoon. Choose what to say. Everybody knows everything you do.
Why similar: Music 23.3%, Narrative 21.5% ★, Mystery 8.9%, Surreal 8.7%, Detective 8.6%
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
Why similar: Narrative 37.9% ★, Surreal 16.9%, Mystery 11.1%, Psychological 10.5%, Story Rich 6.8%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: FMV 29.2% ★, Detective 15.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Psychological 9.2%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
“The invisible us” is a FMV game where you play as Song Wufei, a timid high school student targeted by bullies. When a brave classmate intervenes, a series of mysterious events unfold. Investigate and piece together the hidden truth through deduction.
Why similar: FMV 29.6% ★, Detective 18.7%, Mystery 13.9%, Psychological 11.7%, Simulation 6.1%
After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.
Why similar: FMV 26.9% ★, Narrative 22.3% ★, Psychological 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Mystery 7.7%
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Why similar: Narrative 38.9% ★, Mystery 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.3%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 13.7%, Investigation 12.7%, Surreal 11.5%, Mystery 9.2%, Psychological 8.7%
An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: FMV 30.3% ★, Detective 18.6%, Investigation 16.2%, Mystery 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
一款以清末民初的上海为时代背景的社会派推理游戏。你在一台历史悬案核查终端前接手这项任务：为墙中无名遗骸重建家族谱系。翻阅泛黄的婚书、讣告与老照片，看清旧秩序崩塌之际每个人的选择与挣扎。
Why similar: Detective 25%, Narrative 24% ★, Investigation 19.6%, Mystery 13%, Puzzle 7.2%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Narrative 26% ★, Detective 14.2%, Investigation 11.2%, Mystery 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%
A Narrative Horror Adventure game where you play as a Detective and unravel the bizarre mysteries of a seemingly Ordinary Hilly Town.
Why similar: Narrative 32.2% ★, Detective 17.7%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 10.4%, Psychological Horror 7.1%
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Why similar: FMV 30.2% ★, Narrative 15.2% ★, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Surreal 8.4%, Story Rich 7.1%
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Detective 15.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 41.7% ★, Choices Matter 11.6%, Psychological 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Mystery 9.2%
Jack Beckham is found dead, hanging in his apartment alone. Police rule it a suicide. His father, refusing to accept the conclusion, hires you to investigate. Delve into the clues left behind in his apartment to discover what really happened.
Why similar: Narrative 25.7% ★, Detective 21.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Puzzle 6.5%
Shirabe Hatcho and Ancient Music Score is a puzzle-solving ADV game where you solve the puzzles by ear. Listen to audio, read music, and play an instrument. Use your sense of pitch to solve the mystery and prevent the phantom thief from committing his crimes as a member of the detective agency.
Why similar: Music 32.1%, Detective 23.4%, Investigation 11.3%, Mystery 8.8%, Puzzle 8.2%
Dungeons are just another day at the office — an urban fantasy Adventure about Elysia's dungeon bureau.
Why similar: Narrative 32.4% ★, Detective 16.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
A short, choose your own adventure detective experience, where your choices matter.
Why similar: FMV 28.2% ★, Detective 18.6%, Investigation 16.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, Detective 18.6%, Investigation 16.5%, Mystery 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Land of Infinite Dreams is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure about Princess Luna, a young girl who escapes into Lunaria — a dreamworld shaped by loss, loneliness, and imagination. She harnesses the power of moonlight to overcome challenges and confront creatures born from her fears.
Why similar: Narrative 42.4% ★, Surreal 14.5%, Mystery 9.8%, Psychological 9%, Story Rich 7.9%
A mystery detective FMV game
Why similar: FMV 35.2% ★, Detective 20.2%, Investigation 14.7%, Story Rich 6.7%, Interactive Fiction 5.3%
Step into a suspenseful murder mystery at a prestigious boarding school. As a new student, you must question AI-driven suspects, uncover secrets, and solve the murder before the police arrive. Your choices determine the outcome—can you find the real killer before it’s too late?
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, Detective 16.7%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
Why similar: Narrative 20.6% ★, Detective 14.6%, Investigation 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Mystery 8.2%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Detective 23.9%, Narrative 22.4% ★, Mystery 12.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Join Rat Girl on a gloriously unhinged adventure. Explore a hand-painted world filled with bizarre creatures and unforgettable characters. Solve creative puzzles, make choices that shape your journey, and discover an irreverent story full of dark humor about rebellion and identity.
Why similar: Narrative 33.8% ★, Investigation 13.5%, Surreal 10.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 23.5%, Mystery 17.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Surreal 10%
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Why similar: Narrative 28% ★, Detective 16.4%, Investigation 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Mystery 7.5%
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Why similar: FMV 27.3% ★, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Choices Matter 5.5%
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 42% ★, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Text-Based 8.5%, Story Rich 7.7%, Surreal 7%
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Narrative 34.3% ★, Detective 14.6%, Investigation 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: FMV 26.7% ★, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Choices Matter 8%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 26.6% ★, Surreal 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Psychological 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.6%
A darkened sky. A blazing fire. A wretched tombstone. And you, here at the end of everything. End of Garbage is a short, first-person puzzle game exploring the dark surreality of endings.
Why similar: Narrative 39.9% ★, Surreal 20.9%, Investigation 18%, Puzzle 8.3%, Atmospheric 5.2%
The night before the wedding, the altar burns down and the wedding planner is injured. The family blames a curse, but she suspects foul play. Play as a college student who goes undercover as her replacement. Can you solve the mystery before the wedding?
Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Mystery 18.5%, Detective 16.1%, Puzzle 8.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
A deceptively difficult deduction game about one very unfortunate family. Revisit their worst moments, form your own conclusions, and solve this silly yet challenging mystery.
Why similar: Narrative 29.9% ★, Detective 20.7%, Investigation 18.9%, Mystery 13.2%, Puzzle 6.1%
You're a ferryman in Birchwood, a remote village isolated beyond a lake veiled in thick fog. Mysteries and folklore haunt your dreams in this narrative-driven psychological horror game.
Why similar: Narrative 31.4% ★, Detective 15.7%, Surreal 15.6%, Mystery 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
In Floor13, reality doesn’t change all at once — it shifts quietly, waiting for you to notice.You walk the same office corridor over and over, but something always feels… slightly off.Your task is simple: observe, detect, report. If you fail to see the difference, the corridor will keep you forever.
Why similar: Detective 20.1%, Investigation 15.7%, Surreal 12.1%, Psychological 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
Criminal Expert is a detective video game that puts you under the pressure of inexorably passing time. The story contains multiple selection paths, and you ultimately decide how it ends.
Why similar: FMV 31% ★, Detective 20.3%, Investigation 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%, Simulation 5.8%
The 3rd installment in the Case Files series. An FMV murder mystery, police interrogation, detective experience.
Why similar: FMV 31.4% ★, Detective 19.7%, Investigation 18.2%, Mystery 13.5%, Simulation 6%
Investigate the mysteries of a haunted mansion as you solve various challenging puzzles in this Victorian-inspired, narrative-driven escape room game. With only your wit and a lantern to light the way forward, will the choices you make seal your fate, or open the path to freedom?
Why similar: Narrative 31.1% ★, Investigation 15.9%, Detective 14.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
Enter the burned crime scene and restore 8 cases from the past. The crime scene photos and records have been charred black, but as a cold case investigator, your deduction and forensic skills can reveal what happened. Search by keyword, reconstruct the sequence of events, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Mystery 18.2%, Investigation 14.9%, Text-Based 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.5%
The end of the world is near! After a mysterious package unleashes paranormal events in Triton Town, experience a chapter-based narrative through the eyes of multiple protagonists. Solve puzzles, explore detailed environments, and interview witnesses to uncover the truth before time runs out!
Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 16.5%, Mystery 12.7%, Story Rich 6.4%
You're an insurance investigator. Review evidence, spot fraud, make decisions. Every case is a puzzle — approve, reject, or negotiate. Limited energy, a ticking clock, and your reputation on the line
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 14.4%, Mystery 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Simulation 8.3%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Mystery 19.7%, Investigation 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
